I’m in Hollywood

Picking up the coffee and taking a sip, Sabrina Rand carefully glanced at the young man opposite again, watching Eric focus on the book, even if it had been more than half a month, in her eyes Still curious. ︾Music︾Wen︾Xiao︾Said|

Half a month ago, Sabrina, who was looking for a part-time vacation, received a call from her well-known tutor in the college, saying that a big man wanted to find a temporary tutor to explain some basics of finance to him. Knowledge, you only need 3 hours a day in the morning, you can get $200.

The more top-tier universities in the United States, the higher the tuition fees, which is actually one of the big reasons why nearly half of college students in the United States drop out. Except for a few wealthy children, most American college graduates will bear some student loans to a greater or lesser extent. In order to relieve financial pressure, many students choose part-time jobs during school.

The same is true for Sabrina, who had mostly worked part-time until about $10 an hour.

Hearing about this job that could earn $200 in three hours a day, Sabrina couldn't wait to prepare a resume and hand it over to the mentor. However, she didn't expect too much. She was in college Although the grades in the department are good, there are a lot of competitors who are better than her and hope to get the job.

But two days later, she was notified that she had a job.

Later, she met a vice president-level executive of Firefly Group, who seemed to be named Ellen Fissman. She thought that the other party was the person she wanted to counsel, but the other party turned out to be just interviewing her. The two talked casually for half an hour, and she was then asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement with more than ten pages.

Sabrina was probably aware of something in the process of being able to get a vice president-level executive of Firefly Group to come forward for such a trivial temporary job, but Sabrina was still surprised when she finally saw Eric himself. His jaw nearly fell.

The place of work is Southampton, which is more than 100 kilometers away from Columbia University in Manhattan. For this temporary job, Sabrina deliberately stayed at the home of a classmate in Bridges, not far from Southampton, every day. Drive half an hour early in the morning to this cafe in Southampton.

In the first few days, Sabrina spent most of the time explaining many basic knowledge points to Eric, mainly the professional terms in the book Financial Alchemy written by the financial tycoon George Soros. Reflexivity, participant bias, swap hedging, etc. These issues are very basic to most finance students.

Although I dare not express it, occasionally, Sabrina will feel some sense of superiority in her heart.

But as the days passed, Eric had fewer and fewer problems every day.

But it also became more and more tricky, and Sabrina was almost speechless a few times.

However, for more time recently, Sabrina feels more and more like a vase. Except for the first few questions every day, most of the time, Eric is just reading quietly, thinking occasionally, or in a daze .

Perhaps, in a few days, this lucrative job will be lost.

At this time, thinking of the initial sense of superiority, Sabrina couldn't help feeling that she was really stupid. The young man who holds the most personal wealth in the world is only two years older. Sabrina can imagine that maybe two years later, at most, she will just get a stable job, and she is still far from her life goal. There is a difference of 108,000 miles, but the young man in front of him has already broken through the limit of wealth that most people can have.

How much money does he have, 46.5 billion US dollars, no, it was the year before last, and last year it seemed to be 67.7 billion US dollars, which is really weak.

After getting along for more than half a month, occasionally, Sabrina will have some thoughts of Cinderella, Cinderella, Cinderella, etc. For this reason, she always pays special attention to her appearance and dress up subconsciously during this time, and she also deliberately Bought a brand new set of cosmetics, but so far, apart from the book Financial Alchemy in front of him, Eric has not communicated much with her, and she has not even been to his residence. He must live nearby, and the two can only meet in this cafe every day. Occasionally, when he doesn't come, someone will tell her to leave.

Noticing that Eric's eyes left the book again, he began to lose his mind. After a pause, Sabrina suddenly gathered up his courage and said, Ai... Eric, I went to see Titanic with my friends last night. .

After saying these words, Sabrina noticed that Eric's expression paused, raised his head, and seemed to notice that there was another person sitting across from him. Immediately, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, a bit hateful, as if Smile through everything.

Feeling a little hot on her cheeks, Sabrina felt a little regretful, but since she spoke, she still insisted on blurting out the idea that had been brewing for a long time, saying, Me and my friends feel that this movie is seriously underestimated. , it should have been higher at the box office.”

Eric nodded slightly and said, Thank you for your affirmation, Sabrina, I'm glad you like this movie.

After Eric finished speaking, he picked up the book in front of him and his eyes fell on the page again.

The civet cat's claws-like approach ended in failure, but Sabrina felt a lot more relaxed, and she didn't have the courage to speak up again.

So consistent until twelve o'clock noon, Sabrina packed her things, Eric also stood up at this time, and the two walked out of the cafe together. Sabrina was about to say goodbye to Eric and went to a nearby restaurant. On the road to see if he could stop a taxi or hitch a ride back, but was stopped by Eric.

Wait a minute, let me send you back, Eric said.

Sabrina was stunned for a moment and nodded subconsciously, but she felt a little warmer in her heart. She just casually said that her car was broken in the morning, but he had already remembered it in her heart. Before that, she had always felt that he was a cold-hearted person, but she suddenly felt that she had wronged him.

Eric took out his mobile phone and made a call, and the two waited on the side of the road outside the cafe.

Sabrina quietly carried her bag, paused for a while, and said with determination: Eric, you, maybe you don't need me anymore, maybe, I don't need to come over tomorrow?

Eric looked at the girl and asked, Your vacation should still be long, is there anything else to do?

Sabrina thought for a while, then shook her head honestly.

Then continue to accompany me to read, Eric smiled and said, I like to have someone by my side when I read a book, and you also smell very good.

Sabrina blushed and said, Eric, there should be many around you... girls are willing to accompany you to read books?

Yeah, Eric nodded. However, they won't explain to me what the theory of reflexivity is.

Then, Sabrina asked cautiously again: Eric, may I ask, why are you interested in this book by Mr. Soros?

Eric replied ambiguous: Some things are going to happen, so find out in advance.

Sabrina saw that Eric did not explain to her in detail, and did not ask questions. It was not until half a year later, when the economic crisis that shocked the world swept across Southeast Asia, Sabrina understood the meaning of Eric's words at this time. what.

The driver drove the car over, and Eric ordered the other party to send Sabrina back to Bridges, and then he returned to the manor.

Unexpectedly, Chris and Emily had arrived at some point. The two returned to Maryland to accompany Jeffrey during Christmas, but they did not expect to be back so soon.

Eric hugged the two of them one by one, chatting casually, Chris noticed the book of Financial Alchemy in Eric's hand, and said with a smile: You recently hired a little girl, just to accompany you. read this book?

Eric nodded, not forgetting to joke: Has this matter been spread to Maryland?

Heard about it when Emily and Joan were on the phone, Chris explained.

Emily smiled and teased: Who knows what he is thinking about.

Eric ignored Emily's ridicule and asked, Why did you come back so early and not stay for a few days?

It's not you. You push so much work to Chris, but you are so leisurely.

Eric looked at Emily up and down a few times, and looked at her furiously before saying, If you marry Chris now, I will immediately take half of his work off him.

When Emily heard this, she was immediately taken by ko and dragged Virginia beside her to the villa.

Everyone laughed lightly.

After the women left, Chris returned to the Financial Alchemy just now and said, Have you noticed Soros's actions recently?

Soros's remarks about the Southeast Asian economy are not kept secret, how could I not notice.

The Southeast Asian economic crisis broke out in 1997 in people's general knowledge, but in fact, as early as the beginning of this year, Soros has begun to make frequent comments on the downside of the Southeast Asian economy, but, just like the United Kingdom a few years ago, it felt strong for hundreds of years. The pound will never depreciate in 2018. At this time, Southeast Asian countries, which have experienced false prosperity for more than ten years, also feel that their financial systems will not be breached by international hot money, so they have not taken any effective measures to prevent them from happening. .

At this time, some impatient international currency speculators may have begun to establish short positions in the currencies of Southeast Asian countries. In Eric's memory, in February next year, the international foreign exchange speculators represented by Soros have already begun to launch tentative attacks on the Thai baht.

Chris couldn't help thinking of the incident in 1990 and asked, What do you think this time?

Eric shrugged and said, Southeast Asian countries are definitely going to get bad luck this time, they can't hold it.

Chris's eyes flashed and he said, What about us this time?

I have been thinking about this issue recently, Eric said: We will definitely not be able to replicate the futures profit miracle during the Kuwait war. It was a sudden super black swan event, and almost everyone did not He felt that Saddam dared to invade Kuwait, but he did so. This time is different. Once Soros takes the lead in attacking the Southeast Asian currency market, it will be at least a long tug of war for half a year or even a year. The scale of international hot money is more than 100 billion, and we have no advantage with whom to enter the market, and the risks we take will not be lower than others.

Then what are you going to do? Chris asked again.

Let's just play around with it. Take a few hundred million dollars to play a little bit. Although we can't play too much, we can't do nothing. That's not in my style.

These days, Eric has also been thinking about various issues of the upcoming Southeast Asian economic crisis. Of course, he thought of doing a big job like five years ago, but then he found that it would not work at all.

It is very simple. With the current background of Firefly Group, Eric can easily raise 2 billion US dollars in a short period of time. If necessary, Firefly Group can also lend more than one billion US dollars in a short period of time in major banks in the United States. funds.

Ideally, with a capital of $2 billion and a five-fold safety leverage to establish a short position in Southeast Asian currencies, the overall short position will reach $10 billion.

In my memory, the currencies of Southeast Asian countries have basically depreciated by about 50% after the financial crisis. At that time, Eric will gain about 5 billion US dollars from the short position of 10 billion US dollars.

5 billion US dollars, which is already a very rich profit figure. After all, the top-ranked corporate giants in the United States have only this number of profits in one year.

But the fact is that, in Eric's memory, the four Asian tigers that suffered the most from the financial crisis in Southeast Asia, the foreign exchange reserves of several countries combined are only more than 100 billion US dollars. Currency speculation is different from international futures. The main recipients are The official bank of each country that was attacked was also the source of funds from the foreign exchange reserves of each country.

So, not to mention the later searches of various countries' stock markets, bonds and even the real economy and other industries, just in terms of currency speculation, a total of more than 100 billion US dollars of 'fat' is under the circumstance of wolves looking around, Eric no matter what. It's impossible to build a $10 billion short position.

You alone want to swallow one-tenth of the principal of 2 billion US dollars, when other people's international hot money of more than 100 billion US dollars does not exist.

During the financial crisis in Southeast Asia in the original time and space, Soros overwhelmed his entire wealth at that time, and finally only made more than 2 billion US dollars.

Therefore, perhaps those small investors, in the upcoming financial crisis, take a bold risk and can reap several times the profits, but when the scale of hot money reaches a certain level, the profit ratio will drop sharply, and eventually they will be able to reap % Twenty or thirty profits are not bad.

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ps: Everyone pulled the air conditioner together, the street transformer caught fire, 囧. So... in the chapter of distraction, the notebook should automatically shut down immediately. Fortunately, I prepared a USB demodulator power cable to connect to the Internet. (To be continued.)